Name hospital and salary--everywhere

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Hi, everyone seemed to be enjoying the name your hospital and salary thread from NY and I noticed others would like to participate and know about other states. So everyone join in. Name your hospital, starting rate, and how much experience you have and your specialty. :Melody:

Specializes in Med-Surg /Cardiac Step-Down/CICU/CTICU.

well i live on long island (NY)

starting salary for new grad ranges from 28-32/hr. depending if you go into LTC...hospital...whatever. usuallly starting salaries in hospital is at least 60,000. i know some places that start at almost 70,000. and i know cost of living here is more than other places around the country but i would almost be insulted at some of the per hour rates i'm seeing, but then again it should equal out according to your economy in your state. anyways....:smilecoffeeIlovecof

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this discussion definately helps me. I am researching changing careers and going to nursing school. Salary is a big factor as I (and everyone else) have bills to pay and will be increasing my student loan debt in order to become an RN.

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:Melody: Boston Mass

New grad 2 months exp

1 st job Start Sal 26.00/ hr excluding diffs

Major hospital

2 nd job start Sal 29.00 / hr per diem excluding diffs

community hospital.

yep two jobs.:imbar ..student loans for two undergrad degrees, credit cards that paid for misc nurse related items, rent etc

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$24 - 25 starting in the Chicagoland area---base pay.

I would love to move to San Diego, but it sounds like the pay may not cut it for me as an RN and my dream to live on/close to the beach..... At least not as I pictured it.

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Specializes in Psychiatric.

I just moved to SW Oregon from Mobile, Alabama, so I'll give both:

I graduated in 2005 and went to work at a BIG hospital in Mobile, acute care psychiatric ward: paid $23.00an hour with a $3.50/hour night shift differential (I worked 11p-7a). COL in Mobile is wonderful, and I really, really liked the hospital and the area. I am from Alabama originally but I don't know how other places in Alabama pay.

I moved to North Bend, OR last year because my husband is in the Coast Guard. I make $26.60 an hour now, on a medical/oncology floor (gosh I miss psych), which includes an extra $0.90/hour pay for having a BSN. There is a $3.50 weekend/night shift differential. There is a union here (not at the one in Mobile). I love the area and the COL isn't too bad...it's the real estate that is ridiculous here...we bought a house here for $226,000 that at home would've cost about $80,000, and that's the usual here along the coast of Oregon...further, our housing pay from the CG went DOWN $20! They go based on several things I have no idea how to explain, but to make a long story short a house here for $100,000 is a dump...but the people are nice and this is some of the most beautiful country in the world.

wow...I think I gave more information than the OP wanted! sorry! LOL

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Specializes in Internal medicine,Adult nursing,Med-surg.

Hawaii

0-6 months = 28.58 per hour

7-12 months = 30.62

13-18 months = 32.66

19 months = 36.75

job rate = 40.83

I think most hospitals in Honolulu, Hawaii may pay the same rate according to the collective bargain agreement with Hawaii Nurses association.

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i live in alberta canada and starting wage is about 28 per hour

i am a diploma completion student soon to be rn

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Specializes in ICU, Peri-Op, Hospital Medicine.

I'm a new grad who will be starting in a few weeks at a Chicago hospital. Base pay $23.50. Nights is $4.00, Weekends $4.00 (if you work night weekends that is a total of $8.00). Plus a total of $10K for tuition reimbursement if you stay for 2 years.

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Specializes in ICU, HOME HEALTH, NURSING EDUC, CASE MGT.

When I separated from the military back in 1994, I lived in Las Vegas, Nevada. I started work in a Internal Medicine clinic at $ 14.00 per/hr, benefit package extra. A year later, moved to Southern California providing Home Health for medically fragile and technology dependent infants and children, that pay maxed out at $ 18.00 per/hr...benefits were mediocre. Finally, after finding a company that hires LVN's to do Case Management...the pay is

$ 33.85 per/hr...Annually, that is $ 65,000. I have 18 months experience in Case Management, but 21 years as a LVN. And yes...California has a high cost of living just like New York.

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South western Ontario. 2nd teir of pay scale 24.75 plus shift and weekend differentials and health benefits and paid holiday. Pay scale tops out at 9th year at 36ish.

Better than working at tim hortons.:smilecoffeecup:

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This is an eye awaking discussion. I started as an LPN in 1982 at 6.10/hr. I quit hairdressing at an average of 10.00 /hr. the hours were better and the insurance better. After 25 years of nursing, 18 years as an RN. I make close to the salary of starting nurses. Experiece at this time does not count for much. 3 % raises does not cover gas and cost of living. New grads at a hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio start at around 20/hr. and I have to teach them everything I have learned over 25 years in the 6 weeks orientation time. UGH! I wonder if I should go back to school for chef training. What is the salary of the teachers in nursing schools? I here they have a shortage.

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wow..I may turn down that hospital job I was "technically" hired for after reading all the pay rates....I thought I was getting a good deal... I am also going to do some home care on the side as well as a hospital job. I saw 29.00/hr & almost cried after seeing my piddly 21.74/22.82/hr start pay........Maybe I will go to Boston......B&W pays $29.31/hr to start and the highest pay scale is $60.98/hr........none of this includes diff or anything....gee I feel like I was ripped off by the offer of the hospital I was going to go work at.....:eek:

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